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Alfred HitchcockThe Lady Vanishes (1938 (USA))

From IMDb: Travelers on a trans-European train are delayed for a night due to bad weather in an unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears.

Stars: Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
Audio/Visual: mono, Black & White
Keywords: Hitchcock; mystery; suspense

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Budro - - June 21, 2009
Subject: Good old Alfred!
This film is like a breath of fresh air. Every person in it was great.

Reviewer: elani - - February 3, 2008
Subject: Alsacean Hijinks
This is one of my favorite films, though of course it is early Hitchcock, made before he left England and he had not yet developed many of his trademark techniques as a director... Nevertheless, it is great fun--from the singing and dancing, to the skit on back of the train with Michael Redgrave & Margaret Lockwood, to the evil Nazi's who kidnap Ms. Froy played by the insuperable Dame May Witty. As well, the Englishmen obsessed with cricket throughout the film are wonderful. The idea of espionage in the film is so quaint that's it almost vaudevillian.

Camp, precious, winning and absurd.

Reviewer: robcat2075 - - July 10, 2007
Subject: Hitchcock, but not perfected yet
An amusing movie, butnot as tightly constructed as Hitchcock's later films. It takes 20 minutes just to introduce the characters and the lady who vanishes, the precipitating event for the whole movie, doesn't do so until about 30 minutes in.
That would be the "McGuffin", the thing that happens tht gives an excuse for all the other more interesting events in the movie to happen.

It's interesting how this film is set in a generic central european country that is not stated to be nazi germany but, we suspect, may represent it.

A very impressive miniature shot opens the film.

Among Hitchcock's early films I'd rate this as better than the original "Man who knew too much" but not quite up to the level of "39 steps"